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Happens all the time. Ebay doesn’t know it’s your item, only that you’ve been looking at it and so they think you are interested.
It’s great to see the ad as it proves that eBay knows it’s there and is actively pushing it.
I swear though, I’d LOVE to see the profile Google and others have on me. With all the random items I look up for comps, they must be totally confused about my demographic. LOL.Julie,
I’m constantly picking up and rehanging clothes at thrift stores! I think it’s good karma. Can’t tell you how many times people have assumed I work there. LOL.I think it pays off. Just last week I bought a VCR DVD combo player that was way underpriced…$1.99. I plugged it in and it turned on, so I figured what the heck. I brought it home and while the DVD side worked, I couldn’t put a tape in the VCR side. The door wasn’t opening. I’m no electrical repair genius, but I unscrewed the top to see what could possibly be blocking the door. It was the remote control to the unit! Someone had shoved it in. Everything works!
Before I started on eBay, I was diving into Amazon FBA and private labeling things. Sounds great at first what with all the “I make millions selling on Amazon!” videos out there, but the reality looks more like a huge gamble. After dealing with all the idea and product generation, you hope you get 7000 widgets that sell, not 7000 widgets that sit in a warehouse and bill you for storage.
For now I’m very glad I went the eBay route. As I keep growing, I’ll eventually expand into Amazon and learn their platform. For now, investing thousands of dollars on an idea just isn’t worth it to me. I can go to Harrah’s and gamble all day long…and at least get a “free” hotel room and dinner. 🙂
Geesh.
Ya, theft is totally uncalled for and these folks should be prosecuted.There is a market for merchandise only available at events or parks. It’s actually not a bad business for folks close to such a place who have access. I’ll have access to next year’s Masters in Augusta and plan to buy some merch to list. Certain items sell for nearly triple what they retail for at the event.
I can’t seem to delete the post.
Seems if I had scrolled down farther, I would have seen:“USPS only cares about your outer packaging, so if there is a box inside your poly mailer or envelope, that’s no problem. But you can’t “shrink wrap” or tightly tape a bag or envelope around a box and call it an envelope. If it clearly has 3 dimensions, it is a box and you need to enter all 3 dimensions when purchasing postage.”
Oh well, back to the drawing board.
No problem! I’m pretty fluent in general HTML and CSS, with a little bit of PHP that I picked up working on WordPress sites, but a time saver is a time saver.
It would be nice if eBay allowed direct video uploading, but I understand why they don’t. The increase in storage and bandwidth would be huge…and expensive.
It’s easy enough to embed a video using a site like https://www.flippertools.com/ebayYoutube/embed-youtube-videos-in-ebay-listings.htm
It adds all the markup required so you can just copy and paste into the HTML version of your listing description.Wow, thanks for the info. The actual ebay policy does basically say no links, but all the articles I read on the subject, including ones updated this year, seem to contradict the policy. Sorry to have passed on bad info.
I do embed YouTube videos I make showing electronics working. Thankfully these are still allowed. I think it is a very useful value add for the customer so they can see exactly what they are getting and how it operates. I also link to the eBay listing in my video description with the eBay partner network link so if anyone finds the video on YouTube and then buys the product, I’ll get extra credit for the link.
I’ve never heard of the “viewport meta tag” before, but all my listings have always appeared nice on the mobile app even though I list with desktop. I use a very minimalistic html template I created myself which has a bold blue header and a border around my listing description. I also embed an image showing how I take measurements of clothing. Everything has always rendered just fine in mobile. Was I doing something wrong to not use “viewport meta tags”?
The one thing that does bug me about the mobile listing is that the description preview is very random. What I type in “condition description” is verbatim, but the text I type in my full description field is pulled randomly. I figured it would be the first X number of characters that get displayed, but eBay always pulls a random bullet point or two, a random measurement, etc. There is seemingly no rhyme or reason. Is fixing this what the viewport meta tag was for?
Cheers,
ChristianAdding links to listings can be hit or miss. Generally they are OK if it is simply providing more information on an item which can’t be included in the listing. If the site you are linking to also sells similar postcards by the photographer, that would be grounds for removal. If you used a URL shortener, that would get you as well.
I posted this on Reddit as well and someone there mentioned that I’m using the “classic shipping page”. It is the only shipping page I’ve ever seen in my year of reselling and there are no options to “upgrade” to whatever the new version is.
That said, on this item I had calculated shipping and even the customer saw and paid the lower rate. If I was forced to pay full price after the customer only paid the error pricing, then I’d be losing money big time.
I’ll see what happens with the package. If I get an upcharge from the USPS, eBay should be responsible for it. I can’t go back to the customer and ask them to pay more after the fact. My ebay shipping page shouldn’t impact what the customer sees and pays.
Thankfully I haven’t had these issues, but since the change over to new dimensional weight pricing, they are probably placing a greater emphasis on package size. Sounds like they are trying to implement a system that would also prevent the choice of shipping types that don’t fit the listed dimensions…ie if you have an item with set dimensions larger than a medium flat rate box, they won’t show that as an option. Good idea, if implemented properly…which sounds like they are struggling with right now.
I have an HTC 10 phone I use for pictures and in the pro mode it allows me to slide the white balance manually until the color match is as close as possible…which is sometimes still a challenge for different hues, especially when there is blue and white in the article I’m photographing.
I’ve never tried turning my overhead lights off and just using the bulbs. I’ll give it a shot in my next round of pics.When I know what I’m looking for, I always sort prices low to high and then find the cheapest listing in the US from a seller that has the best feedback. I’m a dedicated value seeker so this just comes naturally for me. I would find it difficult to believe that a high percentage of people don’t also shop this way for most run of the mill items. Collectibles would be different because quality matters more than price in many instances, but generally, price is king. I’d be shocked to learn otherwise.
I’m curious why you wouldn’t want to use business policies? They are one of the best improvements that eBay has ever made in my opinion. Especially for shipping, I have 6 policies that I created that pretty much fit any item that I sell. In a nutshell, I have:
Free first class shipping (for clothes and small items), free priority shipping (for things I know fit in a flat rate box or envelope), calculated shipping (for heavier items that won’t fit in a flat rate), and then versions of the above that include calculated international shipping (there are some items I won’t ship internationally).
Using the drop down list when creating a listing is a time saver, and if I ever need to add a service or make another change, I can just edit the business policy rather than fixing every single listing I have one at a time.
Have you discovered something that causes you to be wary of the policy settings?
